Heel for shoes



Dec. 7, 1926. v 150E918 A. PERUGIA I HEEL FOR SHOES Filed March 13, 19.26

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INVENTOR- Patented Dec. 7, 1926.

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ANDRE PERUGIA, F PARIS; FRANCE.

HEEL FOB SHOES.

Application filed March 13. 1926, Serial No. 94.416, and in France March 18, 1925.

lt is known that the heels for the-most part actually in use for ladies shoes are made in a single piece from a block of wood suitably shaped to give it the desired form.

6 This wooden heel is completed bya strip of leather glued or nailed on its base and it is fixed on the shoe with nails engaging with the interior of the shoe and entering the heel.

Heels made thus require the employment of a highly skilled workman which increases their cost price. Moreover, as it is wood which is being worked with, the surface is seldom even and as it is necessary to cover 'them over with leather, for example, the

whole is comparatively expensive.

It is, moreover, to be noted that metallic heels filled with some stufiing material are known, but without wooden blocks, and other heels are known without a metallic casing and in the mass forming the heel of which there is embedded a vertical block with a very much reduced surface for nailing and consequently not allowing a good and lasting joint with the shoe.

In contrast with these known heels, according to the present invention a heel comprising an external metallic casing, in which is located vertically a wooden block packed in a stufiing material is essentially characterized by the fact that the upperpart ofthe vertical block supports another wooden block located obliquely with respect to the horizontal and occupying the upper part of the heel in such a way as to allow of efl'ective nailing of theshoe on the whole surface of the heel. Another characteristic is constituted in the fact that the upper edge of the metallic casing is provided with two lugs extending towards the middle of the heel and fixed on the upper block with the object of preventing the forcing open and deformation of the said casing which is open at its front. The invention is further characterized by the fact that this front part of the metallic casing is reinforced by interchangeable metallic threads.

The method of manufacturin this heel allows of obtaining a light, yet urable arrangement at a cost rice less than that of the wooden heels wit the advantage of its being fixed on the shoe in the same way as the latter. The heel, once finished, can be stove enamelled, silvered or gilded.

Two constructional forms of the invention are shown on the annexed drawin diagrammatically and by way of. examp e.

Fig. 1 shows by itself in perspective, the arrangement of the external metallic casing of the heel.

Fig. 2 shows, likewise by themselves, two blocks of wood entering into the manufacture of the heel.

Fig.- 3 shows the fitting of the blocks of wood into the interior of the metallic casing.

Fig. 4 shows, in vertical section, the arrangement of the metallic casing and its in- .rest, and its lower edge is likewise bent over at right angles in such a way as to form a lower flange 0 to which the layer of leather intended to be in contact with the ground will'be applied, two lugs (Z being also formed on the side edges of the sheet iron.

A block of wood e is fitted vertically into the sheet iron casing a immediately above its lower bent over edge 0 and it is retained by a second block 7, likewise of wood, fitted into the upper space of the casin a, between the block e on which it rests and the upper lugs b of the casing. The space of the casing unoccupied b the blocks e and f is then filled in, prefer-a ly with a composition 9 made up of powdered cork and a solution of indiarubber. Finally, a metallic thread it is passed through and fixed in the holes made at each of the two extremities of the up er edge 6 of the casing and other meta lic threads 71 are dis osed similarly between the two lugs d and orward end portions of-the flange c to resist forcing apart and deformation of the casing 02. I

When the heel is in place on the shoe, the

iece of thin leather, which increases its ength, closes the open side of the heel. In v cases in which the sole continues over the upper surface of the heel there would be room for closing the front of the heel, by a two strips are jointed together where they abut centrally by a spot of autogenous solder is. The side edges of the casing'ri are bent over throughout their entire height to form inwardly'extending flanges from the lower ends of which extend two stripsl joined together by a spot of autogenous solder m. This latter method of manufacture ensures rigidity of the casing at its open face, while obviating the use of the metallic threads; further, the rear of the upper edge not being flanged will bend more easily in stamp- 1n lhis casing is fitted internally with blocks of wood and filled up with a composition of powdered cork and a solution of india-rubher as described with reference to the preceding arran ement. l

Fromvt e foregoing, the advanta es arising from heels made thus will be un erstood.

The metallic casing obtained by cutting out and stamping a piece of sheet iron is stove enamelled, which allows of it being given all the shades desired. In this way the appearance of the heel being covered with leather can be obtained. The upper block f ofwood allows the heel to be fixed on the shoe inthe ordinary way, by means of nails and the vertical block e allows the groundengaging tread n to be secured under the heel 1n the usual manner by nails or other suitable fasteners. The heel, completed and fixed on the shoe, haslthe same appearance as.

the wooden heels and the actual method of attaching it is not in any way modified. Finally, it is light and its'cost price is much less than that of ordinary heels. A modification of the invention may consist, as regards the lower edge of the external casinga, 1n not flan ing it straight. In t is case, one may slight- 1y vary the shape of the vertlcalbl .being at its lower part exact Q0 he section of the casin which encloses 1t ears against tlfie edges 0 the latter and terminates with t em. -v

. 'It is to be understood that this method of manufacture is not limited .to any particung this edge and leav-- v ock, which,

structional details and dimensions varying without altering the principle of the invention.

I claim: I

1. A heel comprising a casing open at its top and bottom, a block disposed longitudinally in said casing in spaced relation to its walls, a block resting upon the upper end of the first block in the upper portion of said casing and projecting transversely from the first block, and a filler in said casing about said blocks, the upperface of the second block and lower end of the first block being exposed ,at the open upper and lower ends of said casing whereby fasteners may be embedded in the blocks tosecure the heel to a shoe and a ground-engaging lift secured against the lower endof the casing.

2. A heel comprising a casing open at its top and bottom, a block disposed longitudinally in said casing in spaced relation to its walls, a block resting upon the upper end of the first block in the upper portion of said casin and projecting transversely from the first b ock, the walls of said casing being provided with portions projecting1 inwardly in overlapped en agement with t e upper face of the second block, and a filler in said casing about said blocks, the upper face of the second block and lower end of the first block being exposed at the upper and lower ends of said casing and adapted to receive fasteners.

3. A heel comprising a casing 0 en at its to and bottom, a block disposed ong'tudina in said casing in spaced relation to its Wall s, a block resting upon the upper end of the first block in the upper portion of said casing and projecting transversely from the first block, the walls of said casing being provided with inwardly extendin flanges at their upper and lower ends an the upper flange having projected portions overlapping the upper face of the second block, and a filler packed into said casing about the blocks and' the upper 'face of the [second bloek and lower end of the first block exposed at the upper and lower ends of the casing. a

Signed at Paris,'Seine, France, this 16th dayi'of Feb., A. D. 1926. Y

' ANDRE PERUGIA. 

